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Forest Winter

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winter had closed in

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Forest Winter fell

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before everything fell apart

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Forrest Winter misery

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catatonic from misery

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Forest Winter family

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Young Man and his wife and child

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Forrest Winter happy

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how long had it been since they were happy?

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Forest Winter panic

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He felt panic

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Forest Winter optomistic

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he sharpened the teeth of the chainsaw and prepared to go out into the day

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NMC sandunes

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up-slough, down-trough, from shadow, to light

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NMC 1. same

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summers go by but the boy knows everything stays the same

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NMC after divorce

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the boy comes home to an empty house

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NMC remembers

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he remembers everything

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NMC swears

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he swears things are the same

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NMC buildings

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someone will stop it he knows they will

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NMC fear of change

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wakes up with a hard ball of panic in his stomach

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NMC ghost

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full of ghostly sensations like those he’d always associated with amputees

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NMC heart

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his heart contracted

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17
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NMC blood

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blood

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NMC role

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Nilsam was a father. He was a husband. He was a son

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NMC afraid

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He was not afraid

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20
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WWDAWFD world

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come out into the world again

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WWDAWFD mother

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was convinced… her mother was… stupid or sick

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WWDAWFD land

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all a person needs is a bit of land

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WWDAWFD men

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men hate us, they hate our bodies

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WWDAWFD engine

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be an engine

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WWDAWFD watch

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she’d left her watch on… it had stopped

26
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WWDAWFD carcase

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carcase of a small birf

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WWDAWFD drowning

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broken/ to stop her drowning me

28
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WWDAWFD live

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life. Survive they’re the same thing… no difference

29
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MOT

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Minimum before parole of two

30
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MOT dead

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dead tone/ghost/waiting to die

31
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MOT Greta

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Greta changed

32
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MOT affection

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affection for me seemed to dry up

33
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MOT starving

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starving to death

34
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MOT kill

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i decided to kill Fred Blakey

35
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MOT men

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We were men. I would have done the same

36
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MOT nails

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straight as nails in bed/ Greta was no longer strong

37
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MOT security

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flattened herself against me

38
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MOT stain

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The stain of his big white body on me

39
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MOT final

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I knew that i had lost my life. I was a dead man

40
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Distant Lands alone

A

relieved when her parents… left the shop to her

41
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Distant Lands man

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Nescafe hands/ they understood one another

42
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Distant lands panic

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Lunch without a visit… sent a gallop of panic

43
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Distant lands greyhound

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the greyhound was pulling away empty

44
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Distant Lands $50

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the fifty dollar note was starchy new

45
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Laps growing

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They’ve been growing and i’ve gone to fat

46
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Laps weight

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There’s a weight to lose

47
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Laps screw

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a place can’t screw you forever

48
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Laps seven years

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Seven years had healed them in a way they had not expected

49
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Laps queenie afraid

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queenie laughted and was afraid/ Nothing’s changed we have

50
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Strong one survived

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Survived something to become Rachel

51
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Strong one nilsams

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She’d come to love the Nilsams

52
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Strong one followed

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i reckon its time you followed me for a while

53
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Strong one Jerra

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Jerra was stiff and hard with surviving

54
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More heart

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his heart wont ease up/ everything is not alright

55
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More misery

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your misery is contagious

56
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More response to affair

A

it happens Jerra

57
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More strong

A

she seemed to have grown stronger

58
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More protect

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Desire to serve, to protect, to be loyal until death

59
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More old

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I just want to get older/ Jerra took the lead

60
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More better

A

Be better not bitter

61
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More living

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I’m not dying i’m living

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